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Moderna's CEO says vaccines aren't a 'silver bullet' — masks and social distancing are still the best defenses against the virus right now https://www.businessinsider.com/moderna-ceo-vaccines-are-not-silver-bullet-must-wear-masks-2020-11 #SmartNews

I just finally imported all my Google calendar things to Nextcloud, and I took the Google calendar accounts off my phone! One further tiny step away from Google!

#Tribler is a hidden torrenting system.

Tribler is a hidden #Tor-like onion network for securely torrenting. Normal torrents can be bounced around the network for fast and secure downloads. Tribler also provides a discovery network and method to host torrents in an anonymous hidden service like manner. The amount of bounces can be configured for speed or #security.

Website 🔗️: https://www.tribler.org/

#free #opensource #foss #fossmendations #torrent

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Sergei Magnitsky was a tax lawyer and auditor.

He died eleven years ago today, on November 16, 2009, tortured, beaten, and denied medical treatment, in a Russian prison.

His crime was upholding the law, and pursuing corruption to the tne of 5.4 billion rubles ($230 million), stolen by Russian Interior Ministry officials from his client, the Hermitage Fund.

Magnitsky's client, Bill Browder:

Sergei believed in the law.

He knew right from wrong and he was willing to stand up for the things he believed in. When Sergei discovered that senior Interior Ministry officers had stolen the investment companies of his client, the Hermitage Fund, and then went on to rob the Russian treasury of 5.4 billion rubles ($230 million), the proper course of action was obvious to him. Sergei immediately decided to testify against those corrupt officials.

In December 2012, the United States passed the Sergei Magnitsky Rule of Law Accountability Act, which imposes visa sanctions and asset freezes on those involved in Sergei’s arrest, torture and death, as well as other gross human rights abusers.

The incoming US administration should make full use of this act against Magnitsky's muderers.

http://www.billbrowder.com/sergei-magnitsky

#SergeiMagitsky #Russia #Corruption #Torture #Murder #Impunity #VladimirPutin #BillBrowder #JoeBiden

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Cloudless server architecture

We’re offering features you thought you could only dream of:

Hardened database security: Databases don’t have to be exposed to the network thanks to the wonders of On-System Databases™ and Unix Sockets™, hardening security tenfold!
Latency-free database connections: As if that wasn’t good enough, On-System Databases™ allow you to dramatically reduce latency by bypassing the need for pesky network connections!
On-Demand Web Worker Process Spawning™ using the Common Gateway Interface™
Bare-Metal Access™ to On-Server Storage™ for unparalleled Read™ and Write™ speeds
Predictable costs: No more surprise bills. Pay only for what you specify! Our patent-pending Hardware Limitations™ automatically throttles your cloudless server if you reach capacity
Documentation: tired of trying to navigate through the jungle of outdated and incorrect Azure or AWS documentation? Don’t fret! Operating systems are documented by the most dedicated gangs of nerds you can find on freenode!

Leo Erken. Мать российского солдата, захваченного в плен чеченскими боевиками. Грозный. 1997 г. Кажется, что время остановилось. Женщина в надетом поверх платья армейском бушлате навсегда замерла в этом временном убежище. Жилая комната, лишенная уюта казенными двухъярусными кроватями, подходящее место для бесконечного ожидания. Скудные знаки времени: прическа, клетчатый баул в углу, коробка стирального порошка под кроватью никак не нарушают ее отчуждения от мира. Она ничего не замечает, в том числе и фотографа, и в этой позе, в скрещенных руках, и, особенно, во взгляде есть особая независимость. Независимость не надменная, а такая, которую замечаешь при встрече с людьми, чей опыт для тебя запредельный. Сложность и множественность чувств, которые отражаются на этом лице, и есть главное содержание фотографии, то, что делает ее свидетельством жизни души. В этом лице ровная, почти привычная скорбь, невыплаканная и не проговоренная, задавленная бесконечной надеждой. В этом лице напряжение скрытой решимости, такой, когда собственная жизнь уже не дорога.Женщина смотрит на что-то за рамками кадра, и кажется этот упорный взгляд направлен еще и в какое-то другое время. Подпись под фотографией говорит о том, кого она там видит.

https://onpaper.su/leo-erken-mat-rossijskogo-soldata-zahvachennogo-v-plen-chechenskimi-boevikami-groznyj-1997-g/

#Recycling isn't as effective as you would think.
So what's the way? Read more: https://www.ifixit.com/Right-to-Repair/Recycling

Reduce, reuse, repair, than recycle. Of course, recycling is better than throwing stuff away. But that is not the best solution.

С этой недели в кинотеатрах можно будет увидеть фильм Андрея Кончаловского «Дорогие товарищи!» о расстреле мирной демонстрации в Новочеркасске в 1962 году, а также картину Алексея Учителя «Цой», против которой высказывалась семья Виктора Цоя.

https://meduza.io/slides/chto-smotret-v-kino-dorogie-tovarischi-tsoy-esche-po-odnoy?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=main

@rotharius @neauoire Here's one good one, though, from earlier this year, about Catalina: https://sigpipe.macromates.com/2020/macos-catalina-slow-by-design/

Big Sur locks down the system even further. I recommend not buying or using a Mac unless you're absolutely required to by your job. The platform has degraded slowly over the last 5 years, and rapidly over the last 2.

Apple has become an insatiable control freak and incompetent at the same time. Bugs galore, everything locked down. Bad combo.